We transform paper and a whole lot more into products that help the world celebrate life’s special occasions. We are proud to serve the best retailers around the globe with a complete end-to-end service from design to distribution.
We’re a diverse group of companies operating across multiple regions, categories, seasons and brands. We work with the best retailers in the world, offering a full end-to-end service from design through to distribution.
Our products are found within four core categories: Celebrations, Stationery and Creative Play, Gifting and Not-for-resale paper bags.
In this section, you’ll learn more about Design Group, the products we produce and our Board. You’ll also discover the story of how Design Group came to be.
Watch: We Are Design Group
Our Products: Group Capabilities
Celebrations
Design Group is the world’s largest producer of Celebrations products, including greetings cards, gift wrap, Christmas crackers, gift bags and partyware.
Gifting
Our Gifting products allow consumers to give thoughtful and meaningful presents that are bursting with personality, familiarity and functionality.
Craft and Creative Play
Our Craft and Creative Play products empower consumers of all ages to express themselves, learn new skills and create unique gifts and keepsake items.
Stationery
Design Group designs, manufactures and sources a wide range of stationery products for consumers of all ages, for use in education, commercial and home settings.
‘Not-for-Sale’ Consumables
Our ‘Not-For-Resale’ Consumables category combines our well-established Polaris business with Paper Twist Handle Bags. a growing category serving some of the UK’s largest high-street retailers.
Design
Design is at the heart of everything we do. With multiple design studios across the globe, Design Group prides itself on always being at the very cutting edge of design trends and product development.
Our creative teams work hard to produce the very best in branded and bespoke goods, in product categories including Celebrations, Stationery and Creative Play, and Gifting.
With studios in locations including the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, our teams combine their local and regional knowledge with industry-leading experience to create some of the most innovative products on the market.
Production
Our state-of-the-art facilities, streamlined procedures and a dedicated workforce is what enables Design Group to produce high-quality products, on a global scale, all year round.
In the past year, the Group has produced and sold over 1 billion metres of gift wrap, 220 million greetings cards, 115 million bags and 13 million creative play products.
We continue to focus on our production process and capabilities, with investments including a further new printing press for our wrap manufacturing operation in Holland.
Distribution
Making use of our extensive network of local and international contacts, Design Group’s distribution operation allows for our products to reach consumers in all four corners of the world.
Currently, products by Design Group are sold in over 200,000 retail outlets across more than 80 countries.
Our Group operates in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, giving us access to marketplaces across the globe. Using our on-the-ground knowledge, we’re well positioned to distribute our products to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.
Customers
We are proud to serve the best retailers around the world with a complete end-to-end service from design to distribution. It is our aim to be a partner of choice to our customers.
Our customer list includes some of the biggest supermarket, high-street, fashion and online retailers around the world, with our products reaching millions of consumers.
Design Group has a diverse and varied customer base, offering both branded and bespoke products across multiple categories. We are a flexible and agile supplier, providing goods to both value and higher-margin ends of the market.
Management Team: Meet The Board
The Board is responsible for overseeing the management of the business and for ensuring high standards of corporate governance are maintained throughout the Group.
